Stipe Miocic issued a prolonged assertion Monday after his retirement within the Octagon at UFC 309 on Saturday night time.
The previous UFC heavyweight champion, who posted a 20-5 file in his professional profession, thanked his coaches, his opponents, and his spouse within the social media submit.
Let me begin this submit by saying I’m good. Been by means of loads worse. I hope all people loved the present on Saturday. What an unbelievable method exit! I began this journey combating in native bowling alleys & ended it promoting out Madison Sq. Backyard. It really doesn’t get batter than that.
Sorry I don’t get the W, however you possibly can’t get em all. Typically it’s not your night time, that’s the nature of the beast. You possibly can’t plan an ideal ending on this sport, however I assume the right ending is to have been fortunate sufficient to do it in any respect. You all have given me a lot, and I hope I did you all proud. Croatia & Cleveland Ohio particularly. I felt all of you with me at each battle.
To Marcus Marinelli and the Strongstyle crew. We began collectively, we completed collectively. We cried collectively & we bled collectively. If folks solely knew the entire story of all the things we now have been by means of… we might write a reasonably badass novel. There may be no person else I might have shared this journey with… the perfect half is that we’re household endlessly… Marcus, I do know my father has handed. However I additionally know he appreciates you stepping in and being the daddy determine I wanted in my life. We had a hell of a run coach. You devoted years of your life to me. We made historical past based mostly on a dream and also you had a imaginative and prescient. Now we now have extra time to drink wine and play euchre whereas making enjoyable of Bobby as a result of he’s horrible at defending him self.
To my opponents, thanks all. I realized one thing from each single certainly one of you. It was a honor to go to warfare brothers
To my spouse, you’re my rock. The ship doesn’t sail with out you. You sacrificed a lot for this dream and I like you. God knew I wanted you & you inspire me greater than anybody! I’ll miss hanging up on you on Embedded, however there’s YouTube for that To my children, all the things I’ve ever completed is all for the 2 of you. To my Mother, I do know this isn’t the profession you’d have selected for me, however you might have all the time been in my nook since day one.. it was me & you. To my Vayner sports activities household, you guys are the perfect within the enterprise!
Miocic ended his profession as the best UFC heavyweight champion. He set the file for many heavyweight title defenses with 4 when he defeated Daniel Cormier with a unanimous choice win at UFC 252 on Aug. 18, 2022. He ended his profession with two straight knockout losses to Francis Ngannou at UFC 260 and Jon Jones at UFC 309..
